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Chess world rocked by rumours of anal beads and artificial intelligence

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Re: Chess world rocked by rumours of anal beads and artificial intelligence

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Post by veidelis »

themikesanto wrote: post #4
waynecochran wrote: post #2

Where did the anal beads theory come from? Is there precedence for this?

I don't believe there's any evidence to the anal bead thing. It started as a joke tweet by Elon Musk.

It started as a joke not by Elon but by Eric Hansen.

Re: Chess world rocked by rumours of anal beads and artificial intelligence

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Post by faangguyindia »

If you are a player with over 1000 rating, you don't even need the move to cheat at game.

All you need to know is when the crucial moment in the game appears then you can think of several lines of games from that point and you'll figure out the best move.

But spending that much effort on every move is mind numbing and exhaust you in no time

So a cheater only needs a signal to tell whether the current position is the decisive one in the game and then think very hard on this one before playing the best move.

So someone can run an engine and feed that as some signal to the player and then you win and win.

Re: Chess world rocked by rumours of anal beads and artificial intelligence

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Post by deep_red »

faangguyindia wrote: post #6

If you are a player with over 1000 rating, you don't even need the move to cheat at game. All you need to know is when the crucial moment in the game appears then you can think of several lines of games from that point and you'll figure out the best move. But spending that much effort on every move is mind numbing and exhaust you in no time So a cheater only needs a signal to tell whether the current position is the…

There is truth in this. That's why I can perform a lot better on puzzles, where it is known that there is a winning combination, so I can spend 15 minutes (or more) figuring it out. Can't spend that type of energy all game.

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Post by Ferrotin »

faangguyindia wrote: post #6

If you are a player with over 1000 rating, you don't even need the move to cheat at game. All you need to know is when the crucial moment in the game appears then you can think of several lines of games from that point and you'll figure out the best move. But spending that much effort on every move is mind numbing and exhaust you in no time So a cheater only needs a signal to tell whether the current position is the…

You’d have to be grandmaster-level for this to be true.

Re: Chess world rocked by rumours of anal beads and artificial intelligence

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Post by cdot2 »

themikesanto wrote: post #4
waynecochran wrote: post #2

Where did the anal beads theory come from? Is there precedence for this?

I don't believe there's any evidence to the anal bead thing. It started as a joke tweet by Elon Musk.

It started on r/anarchychess
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